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The song is musically a simple folk song based on banjo, accompanied by guitar, drums and fiddle. The lyrics describe a dead skunk in the middle of a road and the smell it produces for people as they drive by. Wainwright has said that the song came out of an actual accident involving a skunk, and that he wrote it in 15 minutes.
Wainwright is perhaps best known for the 1972 novelty song "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)" and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding (the "singing surgeon") on the American television show M*A*S*H. His appearances spanned three episodes in the show's third season (1974–1975). [6]
Album III is the third full-length album from Loudon Wainwright III.It was originally released in 1972 on Columbia Records. Album III would spawn Loudon Wainwright's most popular hit single, "Dead Skunk", one of the many 'novelty songs' sprinkled throughout Wainwright's career.
One Man Guy: The Best of Loudon Wainwright III 1982–1986 (1994, Music Club, UK); The Atlantic Recordings (1999, Rhino Handmade); Dead Skunk: The Complete Columbia Years (2007, Acadia, UK)
Download QR code; Print/export ... a song most famously played by the Grateful Dead; Samson and Delilah (Middle of the Road song)
Hippolytus of Rome wrote homilies on the Song of the Three Holy Children and the Song of Moses in the early third century. By the 4th century, Eusebius reported that many hymns and songs had been written. [1] The earliest surviving collection is found in the fifth century Codex Alexandrinus, which contains 14 odes appended after the Psalms. By ...
To promote it, the song was used in a short film by car manufacturer Fiat to promote the launch of the Fiat 127. The single's B-side "Give It Time" was also used in the film and the Middle of the Road members also featured in it. [4] The single performed well in Italy, becoming a top-three hit, though this was not until October 1971. It was ...
Between 1993 and 1995, three audio cassette tape sets containing episodes of Jungle Jam and Friends were released by Everland Entertainment, a division of Word Entertainment. The sets were: Wild Times in God's Creation (1993), More Wild Times in God's Creation (1994), and Even Wilder Times in God's Creation (1995). They all contained episodes ...